near downtown 与 near the downtown

My hotel is near downtown.

句子中用的是near downtown，为什么不用 near the downtown？

downtown用作名词时其前通常不用冠词。又如：

I live close to downtown. 我住在市中心附近。

We will open an outlet in downtown. 我们将在市区开一家折扣店。

The buses to downtown leave on the hour. 到市中心的公共汽车整点发车。

虽然 downtown 可用作名词。但在许多情况，人们宁愿使用其形容词或副词用法，如 streets in downtown 可改成downtown streets。

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大彭老师 - 英语老师 2022-02-14 08:26

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其实，downtown 前面用不用冠词，与 town 的用法类似。

当 town 指自己居住的城镇或正谈及的城镇时，它前面通常是不用冠词的。类似地，当downtown 自己居住的市中心或正谈及的市中心时，它前面也通常是不用冠词的。

It is situated in a large vacant area of the downtown. 它位于在市中心的一大块空地上。（谈及的不是自己居住城市的市中心）

The hotel is situated two miles north of downtown. 宾馆位于市中心以北两英里处。（谈及的是自己居住城市的市中心）

好题 2022-02-14 07:04

擅长：英语

我的理解是：是否用定冠词，根据说话人把downtown看作泛指还是特指。你的句子My hotel is near downtown. 说话人认为不必要特指downtown. 听话人也不必知道具体是哪个downtown. 又例如（外刊例句）：

1. Even “near downtown” became a selling point. 指房地产濒临市中心是个卖点。

2. People liked to work, visit, and live near downtown because its concentration of activity excited them.

这种情况也可以用a：

1. If you want to compete in a global marketplace, it really helps to be near a downtown.

2. If they grew up in or near a downtown, in a suburb, or rurally, that is their same desire at this age.

说话人如果特指，或听话人知道是哪个downtown,要用the.

请看外刊例句：

1. Waunakee had an abandoned vegetablecanning factory located near the downtown.

2. ... by granting the railway a twenty-year exemption from taxes on 48.6 hectares of land near the downtown.

3. ...a stream that periodically floods low-income neighborhoods on the western side of Birmingham, near the downtown.

4. In Philadelphia, somewhat smaller two-and-a-half-story or three-story houses still existed in fairly large numbers near the downtown.

5. Since 1970 a significant amount of new housing has been built in or near the downtown of cities.

6. The report emphasized the need for Cass Lake and the Leech Lake Band to invest in quality housing in and near the downtown to ensure...

7. The park occupies approximately one acre of land near the downtown.